Comments by "BlackFlagsNRoses" (@blackflagsnroses6013) on "LastWeekTonight" channel.

  1. State's right to oppress and enslave an entire race to maintain an agricultural economy. The basis of Confederate ideals and politics are akin to Nazism, as in rooted in racism. Slavery WAS the main cause for the Confederacy and Civil War. Lincoln emancipated the slaves, not out of moral duty, at least initially, but to maintain the Union. At least it served a greater good regardless of his intentions.
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  2. That name... I could say supercalifragilisticexpialidocious easily but that name... I couldn’t
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  3. Carlson isn’t a journalist. He has people writing his shows and looking for corporate talking points to serve the State and corporate hegemony. He’s just a talking head on tv and that’s what he’s paid for. An opinion piece that retorts culture conflict to distract his viewers from actually questioning those in power. And whenever they give a veneer of populist rhetoric it is nationalist. All MSM is State TV
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  4. Queendom So it’s a theocracy?
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  5. “Banana Republic store” these American businesses have some gall
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  6. Kamala Harris knows all about this. The 13th amendment allows slavery for prisoners
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  7. LampOfExperience that’s not the same. When people go to BLM they support black people or people in general not having to deal with police brutality. White folk waving signs and wearing shirts of blacks for Trump seems silly and disingenuous. Or just flat out a funny image.
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  8. Cuckmeister no guy the NRA don’t give a shit about any rights just gun sales. People who recognize that aren’t “fags” just people with common sense that understand no one gives a shit about anyone personally especially a big business.
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  9. Sounds like the products on Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop
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  10. Andrew Adames You can assume they were racist anyway and would have worked to be plantation owners one day. In fact I agree that the man sounded ridiculous here. If the Confederacy forced his family into service than shouldn't he hate the Confederacy for forcing his ancestors to fight and die for a cause that would only enrich the rich and they likely stay poor? Either way the Confederacy and southern ideals of the time were something Hitler would approve of.
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  11. HitchensImmortal why are there white people with those shirts and signs at rallies lol
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  12. LampOfExperience So people who haven’t dealt with a problem can’t help deal with that problem? Statistically more whites are killed by police annually, and proportionally the killing of blacks by cops is higher than others. So yeah there is a vested interest to have cops not go in with a shoot first mentality. As for the urban locales, the drug war psyche still runs prominently. Cops think they’re at war with urban poor, and the image of “hoodlums” is still a trigger one. It’s a shame the drug war has lead to this image of the urban poor, where corporations can take advantage of a profitable justice system and fill in the prisons for their free labor markets. As you can see the issue is a lot more nuanced, and if you broad stroke it you get insecurities and rebuttals like “blue lives matter” or “all lives matter” as if the BLM were trying to say otherwise. Focusing on the issue is beneficial to all and police brutality is an issue. As for crime, yeah actual crime or as you put it “criminal brutality” should be dealt with by the parameters of the law. But understand there are more factors to the issue at hand.
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  13. thereddrob Another one that doesn’t understand the ideological political shift of parties. I get your disagreement with social programs but it’s not because of a new form of slavery, it’s a touch of socialism trying to be of help. Whether it helps is ultimately up to the people that have use of these programs .
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  14. Book Group Bernie is a capitalist. I know what he calls himself but coming from an actual socialist Bernie Sanders is the moderate, pragmatic, middle ground choice. I don’t support Social Democracy because it puts a band aid on Capitalism allowing it to be more sustainable avoiding collapse. Social Democracy, like FDR’s Social Liberalism is the centrist position. Government regulation of Capitalism and mediation between capital and labor interests in collective bargaining. Without that moderation Capitalism crumbles under it’s weight and people will radicalize to the far left or far right. This all played out in internationally in the 1930’s.
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  15. Nah they just want your money it’s a business not an interest group no matter how they sell it.
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  16. Chatoyer Huggins Interesting anecdote. That is a shame. Stereotypes are a problem when it comes to law enforcement as well. As I stated before the drug war on urban areas was just an excuse for filling prisons for corporate interests. And the stereotype of urban hoodlum is still a triggering image for police and anyone who has that image imbedded in their heads.
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  17.  Gael  Just looked it up. Don’t watch the Grammys and not into K Pop
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  18.  @ghosty0612  John Oliver isn’t a journalist either. He’s a comedian giving current affairs opinion pieces. I mean I’m far to the left of him so in my opinion he doesn’t always hit the nail on the head. Good for a laugh and good research team though. Better than MSM. Comedians make far better talk shows than Corporate Media talking heads
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  19. Edward Myers Lincoln himself stated that if he could maintain the Union if it meant keeping slavery, he would. If he could maintain the Union with some free and others not, he would. Lincoln was a remarkable leader, but not a Jesus or Ghandhi type figure. Still I respect his leadership and ability to see the larger picture.
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  20. islanderkush doobies The Democratic and Republican parties switched ideologies a while ago. In Lincoln's day the GOP were more liberal and supported industrialization and capitalism. The Democrats were more rural, conservative, and quite frankly racist. Not saying today Republicans are racist or are of exact nature as the old Democrats. Just that now Republicans are the more conservative, religious, and anti-big government of the two parties. This switch happened most prominently when they opposed Democrat FDR who approved of a more welfare state.
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  21. Elizabeth Becker Slavery has been a dark truth of humanity's history. This country was founded by racists that committed themselves to conquer Native lands and for good measure treat them like shit for it. I know Irish came as slaves. You know why? Protestants of Anglo-Saxon roots have always saw themselves as the real white-Americans, and superior to all others. Not everyone in recent ages of course but it's how it started. The British Empire, or European powers, left a legacy of "White Man's Burden" dogma that the world is still feeling the ripple effect from it. I have nothing against Brits, or American whites, or any race. Just I acknowledge they left a legacy of negativity as much as positivity. I fucking hate labels. I see a human being before any stratification. And to all responders don't assume my ideals or intelligence. People here measure my intelligence from less than 200 characters, how insightful. Racism is present in every race, every nation. Slavery is not unique to America or colonial times. But we must address the issues that are still present from this history. I am hopeful another age of cultural, artistic, and idealistic enlightenment is to come and a paradigm shift will be imbedded in the minds of future generations where people see human beings before anything else such as race, creed, nationality etc... We must face our past and learn from it, but hurtful sentiments are getting in the way of dealing with the issue. Face the ugly truth and move on. The Confederacy is only part of American history because it is a people who wanted to leave the country and form a state of racism and slavery. There's nothing to be proud of or inherit. Just the knowledge to be better than the people of the past. This includes people in the Union that turned a blind eye to the suffering of a people.
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  22. Calvin Scott I said the emancipation was for the greater good. And actually yes the Civil War prevented a state of racism and slavery that would have endured for who knows how long? So yes it served a greater good in this continent which is more than you could say about other wars. At least the most brutal war in domestic American history was about ending a horrendous institution. Even thought similar institutions prevailed, it served to progress faster than it may have if slavery continued.
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  23. Book Group but others are doing great. This isn’t based on the economic structure as much as government action
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  24. Back by popular demand!
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  25. Brian Schultz nah John Brown has it right. Slavery was illiberal. And Lysander Spooner said it best, the South weren’t traitors to want to secede from a government they no longer wanted. But States Rights were just a ruse for the authoritarianism not of a federal government, but if tyrannical unitary State governments. I also agree with Lysander Spooner that the US constitution is an outdated social compact created by a generation long dead that subsequent generations do not have to adhere to. And he said that in the mid 19th century. Anarchy is Order!
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  26. Everytime that Cruz video is so cringe worthy. Just sad.
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  27. Media you done goofed.
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  28. I thought the US was having a shitty time. The world is coming down at once apparently.
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  29. Andrew Adames No shit. Lincoln didn't emancipate the southern slaves out of moral obligation, at least initially probably, but to maintain the Union.
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  30. Luise Atoll It’s CGI “love-action” like the Jungle Book movie. And Beyoncé is playing Nala. Voice acting that is.
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  31. Get off petroleum to cleaner energy sources and stop relations to theocratic monarchies fundamentally opposed to our values!
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  32. Sounds like the Orwellian Ministry of Truth
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  33. If this guy were in office it’ll be a near theocracy; fuck that!
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  34. Septuple I thought a true communist state would have no government, and the state would be abolished for workers controlling the means of production?
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  35. random one.niner there’s a huge gap between social democracy and socialism mr. Venezuela.
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  36. Capitalism doesn’t care. They fall on their knees to the Chinese government so long as these corporations can continue to profit. They actually protect the Chinese State.
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  37. 3:00 - 3:10 savage but true
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  38.  @ghosty0612  in fact they do. Even John Oliver. He’s not outside Democratic establishment lines. He talks about serious issues but doesn’t bring real solutions or go outside the mainstream norm of the Overton window of politics. And Carlson literally works for MSM.
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  39. @L M yeah sure. All talk no bite. The fact that you put Democratic establishment lines in quotes tells me you don’t know what’s going on. But here a quote from an American can clear it up to you: “The Republican and Democratic parties, or, to be more exact, the Republican-Democratic party, represent the capitalist class in the class struggle. They are the political wings of the capitalist system and such differences as arise between them relate to spoils and not to principles.”
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  40.  @ghosty0612  for me political parties with capitalist state values are working for the state. As a libertarian socialist parties of the capitalist ruling class are branches of the State, and without a proper labor organization and our own movements the parties of the elites will continue to exploit us with wage slavery and monopolistic capital concentrations.
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  41.  @ghosty0612  American news media is owned by about 5-6 corporations..... how is MSM and those that work for them not State propaganda. When I say libertarian socialism, that’s just another way of saying I’m an anarchist. If you want anti-establishment news coverage I suggest independent media. Remind me when was the last time you saw actual anti-capitalist socialists, anarchists, communists, Marxists etc... in American mainstream media. Has anyone even questioned the wage system since televised American news?
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  42.  @ghosty0612  the State is the apparatus for a ruling class to subdue and subject masses of people into a hierarchical social order. Under capitalism the ruling class is the owners of capital who control law, government, and media. And they maintain the hierarchy of capital owners and laborers dependent on wage labor. That’s why it’s called a capitalist state, it maintains the social order of capitalism. Just as there were feudal orders, slave orders etc...
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  43. Welcome to my nightmare.
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  44. Earthbjorn Nahkaimurrao I know. The WASP that have ran this country are assholes that don't practice what they preach. But the Confederate leaders themselves stated that they have a right to enslave the lesser race as they are beneath a white man. That shit is racism and they fought to keep their slaver's institutions plain and simple.
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  45. TheTabaK23 Both based on racial superiority. Except Nazis believed the Nordic Aryan race to be the master race. Confederates viewed the Protestants of Anglo-Saxon roots to be pure white-Americans.
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  46. Jacob Sigler There were more crimes against humanity occurring. The dogma of seeing people as property allowed for some real despicable shit. Many things slave owners did to the slaves would now be considered a crime to do to anyone. They were able to do it because it technically wasn't crime, but we all know it was. So no crime may technically not have been committed but only because laws were barbaric at the time.
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  47. Rickle Pick13 The WASP that run this country have always been entitled pricks. I know all these people allowed and accepted racism to be fundamental in America's earlier culture. The Founding Fathers must have figured they won't solve racism and slavery anytime soon so just left it for a possible more enlightened future. No one is perfect, and this country has a history of not living up to it's ideals to this day. It's a work in progress.
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  48. Jeffrey Samuels What I'm comparing is they both have basic fundamentals of racism and superior race. Nazism was pure racism, race before anything. Confederate ideals were racist as well. They professed the superiority of the white man, as in Protestant and Anglo-Saxon, over others and that they have a right to enslave the lesser race to maintain their rural way of life. The core of both ideologies are racist, plain and simple. Of course they're not the exact same verbatim.
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  49. Tucker Porn And they called themselves Christians? Slavery was a shit institution and I'm fine with the Government saying no to the issue.
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  50. Rickle Pick13 Delusional? Look up the majority of people with power in this country historically you 'll see WASP. It's just a fact. We still feel the ripple effects of European powers thinking they're better than everyone during the Age of Exploration and Imperialism. Ideologies are still influenced by "White Man's Burden" doctrine. Including the Protestants of Anglo-Saxon roots in America. People still think in lines of racism, it's in every race. So please be more respectable in your arguments, Rick Sanchez you are not.
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